STEM Community Call May 5, 2011
On the call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Werner, Dirk, Judy
Topics of the Week
Status of new Earth Science Data plugins (Stefan for Jan)
· Jan has been working on them, now have 2000-2010
· New plugs ins are in SDN repository
· 2009 is out of build
· Include as feature in next release
· Plan: Post notice on Newsgroup, stem-dev
Discussion on STEM ‘features” and proposed repository re-organization (Matt)
· Matt: Please read the email on stem-dev, postings on newsgroup and comment
Update on Bug 318709, feature request from Matthias: “Develop a report generator for scenarios and simulations” (Jamie)
· Development of prototype In progress
o Have decided to use _javascript_ to allow expand/collapse
o Dirk: Matthias would concur
· Will send to Matthias for comments
Updates from Students
· No updates
Visit to San Jose class working on STEM (Matt)
· Students doing interesting work, did a good job
· Visit gave Matt and Jan some ideas
Update from Werner on demo
· Went well, much interest, including some on flu
Items from Participants
· Judy: Proposal for Epidemics 3 due June 30; Jamie/Stefan will prepare
· Dirk: Is there some way in STEM to create movies for demos when machines might not work? Matt: yes, can capture, a kind of “secret feature” not yet ready for release; will send Dirk info on how to do